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up to enact these reforms. Evidence T officials feel no qualmsin that result
is multiplying that the south will do
its full share for both amendments,
Grace R. Adams.
A WIFE'S PROBLEM. I have one
of the best husbands in the world
when he is not 'drinking. He is al
ways ready to help me and wait onJ
me at a hand;s turn. He is always
planning where we will spend our va
cations and ready to buy me any
thing I need.
But just as soon as he gets half
full of liquor the brute begins to
show in him. He is ready to strike
me' or-Choke me. Now some people
tell me "that is love." I'd like to
hear what some of our Forum read
ers think about it.
If that is "love" I'm ready to quit
Then they want to hang a woman
for losing her temper when she must
defend herself by hitting him with
the first thing she canget her hands
on after he has almost all the breath
choked out pf her. A Wife.
THE INCOME TAX. Text books
on American government state that
the power of originating revenue
measures was lodged in the house
of representatives, because the pow
er of Taxing involves the very foun
dation of a democratic state! So, in
critical times in tiie struggle between
despotic rulers and the people, the
' latter have usually denied the former
those revenues necessary, to the
maintenance of authority.
Because this right of levying? taxes
is so vital, It behooves us to watch
well how thik privilege is exercised.
Indirect taxes in the form of tariff
duties-or revenue stamps on articles
of popular qonsumption are favorite
waya of raising the money necessary
for the maintenance of the govern
ment They are rather easily collect
ed, are not directly felt and in par
ticular do not hit the wealthy class-
Consequently we are not much
perturbed by the neyts that the pres
ident and-congress, in planning reve
nues to meet the increased expendi
tures of the nation (due in large part
to an utterly unwarranted naval and
military budget) are considering a
revenue tax on coffee, sugar and to-
bacco in particular. To be sure, the
rich drink coffee, but were the tax
on it increased a hundredfold they
would yet hardly feel the burden.
The wealthy also use sugar, but
hardly to the amount where fhey
would be embarrassed by the imposi
tion of any possible tax. As for to
bacco, the well-to-do buy ( such ta.
pensve cigars the-difference -would
not even arouse their attention. But
to the poor any addition to the al
ready high cost of living is a serious
propositfon. For'the inevitable re
sult is the addition of these duties to
the cost of the article on which they
are laid.- ,
Thus when you buy a pound of
coffee you are charged a price in
cludingrthe tax. Such taxes conse-
quently strike the great masses of
our people, those least able to pay,
and affect very little those most able
to. This is a grave injustice, against
which we should protest. That pro
test should take form in the recall of
these mis-representatives and the
selection of those who will be guided
in their legislative activities by the
needs of the common people.
Let us find out why the president
does not follow the recommenda
tions of Walsh and make, public the
list of income tax payers. It has been
shown that our government is being
robbed of millions yearly by the false
schedules of our millionaires, or, .
worse, their failure to file any. Con
gress has given Wilson authority to
reveal these thieves. Wvhy does he not
act? Why does he prefer that the
workingman, who can barely make
both ends meet now, should have the
es. Tnev are taken out of tne Dock
ets of the working people, but as I -struggle made'still harder?
-these do not control the state, our I Write your congressman.
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